Sorry for the irratic behavior of the wineboard today and yesterday. It turns out that the web server itself had a hard drive problem and was generating corrupt files.

This is the first time in over five years that we've had this kind of problem.

We've restored as much as possible, although I see a few cosmetic problems remain.

It looks like we've also lost about 20 user registrations... My apologies. They are not all new registrations either. So if your username and password suddenly don't work, it may be that you were one of the unfortunate 20. I'm so sorry.

A few posting have been lost as well. As far as I can see they included posting between last night at 10:25pm and about noon today. We've restored everything we can and apologize for any lost postings. Hope you will re-post if yours has disappeared.

Hopefully this will be the end of the ghost in the machine.

I'll be watching to see if other things are working OK. Please send an alert if you see glitches....

It looks like the posts give you the opportunity to e-mail the user. It's not on the older posts. I don't know about others, but I personally don't want this to be an option. Is there a way to fix this?

This will not show up on older posts until I do a complete run of old files, which will take hours. I will do it during the night, so it won't disrupt the board anymore than it's been disrupted already.

I like the subtle new colorful look, and have turned my email off in the profile.

On the subject of email: on another wine board, members can email one another through the board so that email addresses are accessible to members and screened through the board, while they are not open to all the spammers, scammers and downrights pests of the world.